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INDEX 2 · News 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifi eds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 192, NO. 28
Freshman
Velus Jones
and the
football team
fell to
Washington
State on Friday.
PAGE 12 DAILY TROJAN
By TOMÁS MIER
News Editor
Like their peers in the Los
Angeles Police Department,
USC’s Department of Public
Safety officers are armed with a
handgun, meant for use in severe
situations.
Unlike LAPD though, DPS is
currently not armed with tasers.
Campus police is considering
providing its officers with these
less-lethal weapons, amid a
nationwide discussion over police
use of force on college campuses,
according to DPS.
Last month, the president of
the LGBT club at Georgia Tech
died in the hands of police while
they went through a mental
breakdown, according to the
victim’s family’s lawyer.
Scout Schultz, a senior majoring
in engineering and the president of
Georgia Tech’s Pride Alliance, was
killed by a school police officer on
Sept. 17, after the campus police
department received a 9-1-1 call
that Schultz, who was gender
non-binary, was carrying a gun
near a parking garage on campus,
according to the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation.
Video footage of Schultz’s death
showed that they were holding a
multi-purpose tool in their hand
and were walking toward officers
| see DPS, page 3 |
Photo from Wikimedia Commons
Resources and relief · After Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, power and communication
remain down across most of the island. More than a million people are currently without drinking water.
By KARAN NEVATIA
Assistant City Editor
After both Hurricanes Irma and
Maria hit Puerto Rico in September,
the U.S. territory has been in dire need
of aid. The Puerto Rican community
at USC is doing its part to support
the island by setting up efforts to
raise awareness, mobilize politicians,
donate money and send supplies to
Puerto Rico, both on campus and in
the greater Los Angeles area.
“I didn’t want to sit idly on the
side,” said Victor Cruz, a Puerto
Rican graduate student.
Cruz is part of the communications
committee for Los Angeles for Puerto
Rico, a grassroots organization
formed just after Hurricane Maria
hit the island. The group is primarily
aiming to promote three fundraisers
to send monetary aid to Puerto Rico,
Cruz said.
“Mariafund.org is the one we
want people to most directly donate
to do, because that money is being
directly given to people in Puerto
Rico — there’s no intermediary
force,” Cruz said. “That money is
directly distributed to nonprofi t
organizations that are working most
closely with the hardest-hit areas of
the island.”
The other two fundraisers are
Voices for Puerto Rico, an effort
organized by Puerto Rican cultural
infl uencers in the mainland United
States and a YouCaring page set up
by Los Angeles for Puerto Rico. The
money from both of these efforts will
go to local nonprofi ts in Puerto Rico,
Cruz said.
Another fund not specifi cally
associated with Los Angeles for
Puerto Rico is Students with Puerto
Rico, a GoFundMe campaign
organized by several University
of Pennsylvania students at the
University of Pennsylvania, which has
now spread to over 100 universities
across the United States, including
USC.
Limari Archuleta, a senior
studying health promotion and
disease prevention, is the USC
representative for Students with
Puerto Rico.
“As Puerto Rican students on
the mainland, watching all of these
horrible pictures and videos, all
these horrible things happening back
home, we felt useless, so we wanted
to do something from over here,”
Archuleta said. “The money that will
Students raise money,
awareness for Puerto Rico
Los Angeles for Puerto
Rico is promoting three
fundraisers to aid the island.
| see RELIEF, page 9 |
DPS officers are currently
only armed with a handgun
for extreme circumstances.
DPS evaluates adding tasers to offi cer belts
By DAILY TROJAN STAFF
O.J. Simpson was released
Sunday from the Lovelock
Correctional Center in Nevada
after spending nine years in
prison.
Simpson, a former USC
football star, was imprisoned
in 2008 for charges related to a
kidnapping and armed robbery
in September 2007.
Simpson was granted parole in
July after an hour-long hearing
in Nevada.
In 1994, Simpson faced
judgment for the alleged
murders of his ex-wife Nicole
Brown Simpson and her friend
Ron Goldman. After nearly
year-long, widely publicized
trial, Simpson was found not
guilty. However, soon after his
acquittal, Goldman’s family filed
a civil suit against Simpson and
won $33.5 million in damages.
In 2008, Simpson was found
guilty on charges of assault,
kidnapping, robbery, criminal
conspiracy and use of a deadly
weapon after participating in
an armed robbery in Las Vegas.
He was sentenced to a maximum
of 33 years in prison, but is now
being released early for good
behavior.
At his parole hearing in July,
Simpson said he wanted parole
so he can spend time with his
children.
“I’ve not complained,” Simpson
O.J. SIMPSON
RELEASED FROM
NEVADA PRISON
| see SIMPSON, page 9 |
Natalie Ng | Daily Trojan
Keeping campus safe · DPS offi cers are subject to consistent evaluations of the effectiveness of their weapon
use and are trained for different types of scenarios. They train alongside other offi cers in the LAPD Academy.

INDEX 2 · News 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifi eds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 192, NO. 28
Freshman
Velus Jones
and the
football team
fell to
Washington
State on Friday.
PAGE 12 DAILY TROJAN
By TOMÁS MIER
News Editor
Like their peers in the Los
Angeles Police Department,
USC’s Department of Public
Safety officers are armed with a
handgun, meant for use in severe
situations.
Unlike LAPD though, DPS is
currently not armed with tasers.
Campus police is considering
providing its officers with these
less-lethal weapons, amid a
nationwide discussion over police
use of force on college campuses,
according to DPS.
Last month, the president of
the LGBT club at Georgia Tech
died in the hands of police while
they went through a mental
breakdown, according to the
victim’s family’s lawyer.
Scout Schultz, a senior majoring
in engineering and the president of
Georgia Tech’s Pride Alliance, was
killed by a school police officer on
Sept. 17, after the campus police
department received a 9-1-1 call
that Schultz, who was gender
non-binary, was carrying a gun
near a parking garage on campus,
according to the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation.
Video footage of Schultz’s death
showed that they were holding a
multi-purpose tool in their hand
and were walking toward officers
| see DPS, page 3 |
Photo from Wikimedia Commons
Resources and relief · After Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, power and communication
remain down across most of the island. More than a million people are currently without drinking water.
By KARAN NEVATIA
Assistant City Editor
After both Hurricanes Irma and
Maria hit Puerto Rico in September,
the U.S. territory has been in dire need
of aid. The Puerto Rican community
at USC is doing its part to support
the island by setting up efforts to
raise awareness, mobilize politicians,
donate money and send supplies to
Puerto Rico, both on campus and in
the greater Los Angeles area.
“I didn’t want to sit idly on the
side,” said Victor Cruz, a Puerto
Rican graduate student.
Cruz is part of the communications
committee for Los Angeles for Puerto
Rico, a grassroots organization
formed just after Hurricane Maria
hit the island. The group is primarily
aiming to promote three fundraisers
to send monetary aid to Puerto Rico,
Cruz said.
“Mariafund.org is the one we
want people to most directly donate
to do, because that money is being
directly given to people in Puerto
Rico — there’s no intermediary
force,” Cruz said. “That money is
directly distributed to nonprofi t
organizations that are working most
closely with the hardest-hit areas of
the island.”
The other two fundraisers are
Voices for Puerto Rico, an effort
organized by Puerto Rican cultural
infl uencers in the mainland United
States and a YouCaring page set up
by Los Angeles for Puerto Rico. The
money from both of these efforts will
go to local nonprofi ts in Puerto Rico,
Cruz said.
Another fund not specifi cally
associated with Los Angeles for
Puerto Rico is Students with Puerto
Rico, a GoFundMe campaign
organized by several University
of Pennsylvania students at the
University of Pennsylvania, which has
now spread to over 100 universities
across the United States, including
USC.
Limari Archuleta, a senior
studying health promotion and
disease prevention, is the USC
representative for Students with
Puerto Rico.
“As Puerto Rican students on
the mainland, watching all of these
horrible pictures and videos, all
these horrible things happening back
home, we felt useless, so we wanted
to do something from over here,”
Archuleta said. “The money that will
Students raise money,
awareness for Puerto Rico
Los Angeles for Puerto
Rico is promoting three
fundraisers to aid the island.
| see RELIEF, page 9 |
DPS officers are currently
only armed with a handgun
for extreme circumstances.
DPS evaluates adding tasers to offi cer belts
By DAILY TROJAN STAFF
O.J. Simpson was released
Sunday from the Lovelock
Correctional Center in Nevada
after spending nine years in
prison.
Simpson, a former USC
football star, was imprisoned
in 2008 for charges related to a
kidnapping and armed robbery
in September 2007.
Simpson was granted parole in
July after an hour-long hearing
in Nevada.
In 1994, Simpson faced
judgment for the alleged
murders of his ex-wife Nicole
Brown Simpson and her friend
Ron Goldman. After nearly
year-long, widely publicized
trial, Simpson was found not
guilty. However, soon after his
acquittal, Goldman’s family filed
a civil suit against Simpson and
won $33.5 million in damages.
In 2008, Simpson was found
guilty on charges of assault,
kidnapping, robbery, criminal
conspiracy and use of a deadly
weapon after participating in
an armed robbery in Las Vegas.
He was sentenced to a maximum
of 33 years in prison, but is now
being released early for good
behavior.
At his parole hearing in July,
Simpson said he wanted parole
so he can spend time with his
children.
“I’ve not complained,” Simpson
O.J. SIMPSON
RELEASED FROM
NEVADA PRISON
| see SIMPSON, page 9 |
Natalie Ng | Daily Trojan
Keeping campus safe · DPS offi cers are subject to consistent evaluations of the effectiveness of their weapon
use and are trained for different types of scenarios. They train alongside other offi cers in the LAPD Academy.